"Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean leader, 'was a CIA informant'"

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I'm sure Kim Jong un will behave in a responsible and fair manner on this issue. The way he treated his generals and his uncle are living proof that we can have confidence in his judgement. 😆 😆 😆

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If the US President's brother were known to be working for China's intelligence service and were living outside of US jurisdiction, then would Mchill object to a US plan to assassinate him?

Mchill would leave this issue up to the legal authorities, since Mchill does not have a security clearance, and therefor no access to much of the details that normally go along with legal cases of this type. America's legal system, though not perfect, is generally pretty good at prosecuting guilty people.

@mchill said
I'm sure Kim Jong un will behave in a responsible and fair manner on this issue. The way he treated his generals and his uncle are living proof that we can have confidence in his judgement. 😆 😆 😆

The last person our corporate news media claimed was killed by Kim Jong Un is alive and well.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/03/asia/north-korea-diplomats-intl/index.html

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If the US President's brother were known to be working for China's intelligence service and were living outside of US jurisdiction, then would Mchill object to a US plan to assassinate him?

Mchill would leave this issue up to the legal authorities, since Mchill does not have a security clearance, and therefor no access to much of the details that normally go along with lega ...[text shortened]... . America's legal system, though not perfect, is generally pretty good at prosecuting guilty people.

Could Donald J. Trump betray a CIA contact?
Lord, that's a can of worms I hope we'll never have to open.

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Would Kim Jong-Un have known that Kim Jong-Nam was a CIA source? Where did WSJ (=Wall Street Journal?) get their information? There's a number of plausible explanations for this story other than it being true, ranging from someone repeating inaccurate office gossip to a psychological attack by the CIA - get Kim Jong-Un a little bit more uncertain about his information control.

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That's right.

It makes sense to be motivated to kill him for that reason as well as other reasons about his mere presence undermining his power.

Surely, this can't be held that much against him, right? It's just real, political considerations.

I know I could trust on our Chinese friend to view politics in this way. That's how it is for Tibet and the Uighurs.

It is how it is for Israel & Palestine.

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Where's the disagreement, though?

If Kim Jong-nam was killed because he was an informant, this would've been publicized to the N. Korean people.

The Washington Post reports that Kim Jong-un announced through the NK media that his uncle was killed for "half-heartedly clapping". If such a petty reason for execution was acceptable NK's state media, surely being a spy for the United States would've been more than enough to justify execution from Kim Jong-un.

But there's no report of this ever being made public. I'm sure this has more to do with why Kim Jong-un killed his brother:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38971834

"Kim Jong-nam became one of the regime's highest-profile critics, openly questioning the Stalinist policies and dynastic succession his grandfather Kim Il-sung began crafting in 1948."